December 2013

The first weekend in December meant Sinterklaas came to visit our house. 

Camia has been playing so much with her little doll, a gift to her from another of my brothers. Since the clothes made specifically for this doll from the company is so ridiculously expensive, I decided to take on a challenge and make a dress instead. I am a little proud of how it turned out.

I made the dress

and a coat and scarf to match. I ordered the boots and tights online.

Sinterklass. Caleb was so excited to see him :/ .

The kids got a surprise in the mail - a Christmas gift from Edmonton. This Christmas Camia learned how to build Lego all by herself. 

It also snowed. We don't get much of it here, so any little bit is cause for extreme excitement in the littles. 

Caleb has a favourite spot in the house. He pulls the basket out, dumps the quilts and parks his little bottom. I have since created a block and moved the couch in front since he loves to press the buttons and go fishing. Several times I have caught him with his little hands in the fish tank. That fish will die of a heart attack before his time.

And then it snowed again. This time there was enough to hit the slopes. And by slopes I mean a little hill down the road from our house.

I took Caleb - who absolutely hated it - down the hill. Camia took my camera.

And we built a snowman. He stuck around for a few days.

Back in October I became an Aunt...this time on my side of the family, my first real, full blood nephew. A cause for great excitement. It is so unfortunate that they live on the other side of the country. My mom went to go see him (I wanted to fit in her suitcase so bad) so I sent along a quilt for him. My first quilt to not use squares. Half square triangles turned into a chevron pattern. I am happy with the end result.

New Years Day we went skating with our church. It was Camia's first time on skates.

With my sister's wedding looming on the horizon, and my little girl a flower girl, Mary needed a new dress, to match. So, I got behind the sewing machine once again to create a ballgown for my little girl's princess.

November 2013

Caleb has an obsession: He loves the Piano Guys. He loves the time where we lay together on the couch and find music videos on YouTube. 

It doesn't matter how you watch it either.

Caleb is also a monkey. He is the type to get into every.thing. He touches. He destroys. He eats. He is a boy. One day he found Camia's water paints. He touched. He destroyed. He ate. He is a boy.

He touched my floor.

He touched my walls.

He touched my doors. I am thankful it was water paint and non toxic.

We gave him spaghetti for the first time.

Yum, though he was cleaner in the end than Camia was on her first time. I can't say so much for the floor. Or the walls.

He figured out what a crayon and paper is for.

He learns young which team he is to cheer for. It doesn't matter how he feels :).

October 2013

As per usual, we hit up the pumpkin patch this year. 

We found the swings

We found baby chickens.

We had our usual pumpkin patch photo.

And then a couple weeks later we went on another field trip.

We had Athlete Day for school where the kids could dress up as a sports player. Camia chose basketball. I decided to get creative instead of going out and buying a jersey. It doesn't help that I kinda forgot about it until the morning of either.

Camia also learned how to ride a bike. We had been trying to teach her for quite some time, but to no avail. Because her training wheels were not on properly (and no matter how much I tried I couldn't get them straight), she had learned how to ride leaning to one side in order to balance herself out. For a while we had been hearing, and seeing, of kids riding a pedal-less bike. After thinking about it for a while and talking to several people about them, we learned that kids learned to balance more and ride quicker without the pedals. So we bought one. 2 weeks later she was riding a bike like she owned it.